duress

duress is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
2. noun. The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
3. transitive verb. To subject to duress.
4. noun. compulsory force or threat

   "confessed under duress"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in duress:

druses, sudser

Common word forms

dures, duresses

Words from these letters

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